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UtahRatt wrote:

johnk5150 wrote:Yes Cubs fans are always strutting around like winners. And a Cubs fan that would bet on them isn't a Cubs fan.

Funny in my younger days I'd watch the Chicago network and support them till I meet the fan base.

Sandberg, The Hawk, Maddux, Dunston, Grace......Liked them all.

Wasn't it the Cub's who started tossing back the opponents home runs?

Yes they're called Chardonnay drinking hipster douchebags. Can I assume you live a distance from Chicago? No one here thinks the Cubs are good. And we know we certainly have nothing to brag about.

Damn, y'all are some self-loathing SOBs

johnk5150 wrote:Yes they're called Chardonnay drinking hipster douchebags. Can I assume you live a distance from Chicago? No one here thinks the Cubs are good. And we know we certainly have nothing to brag about.

You're in de-nile!

Cub fans are manically depressed bobble heads who radiate like the ding bats at McDonald's. HI, How's your day!! Can I take your order!! LET'S PLAY TWO!! That painted on smile hides your crying to sleep at night with each and every painful game....Day....Year...Decade..Fuck it, a life time of getting spanked while saying "thank you sir may I have another?"

I worked on and lived by an AFB so these "distance" fans came from other planets like Chittown and St Lousy, not that where you live has fuck all to do with it. Cub fans come off as a dumb down cheap beer drinking version of Cardinals fans. But I do respect their loyalty, most teams would die faster then you could say Montreal. It's hard to hate on a team because of their glee club but with the CUBS it's a written rule you have to hate the team because of their peanut gallery.

I'd love to watch a game at Wrigley and enjoy it even more to catch and keep the HR ball. Looks like a fun park full of nasty beer drunkards.

killeverything wrote:Damn, y'all are some self-loathing SOBs

You know you loved him and want one.

UtahRatt wrote:

killeverything wrote:Damn, y'all are some self-loathing SOBs

You know you loved him and want one.

Seeing Manny hit was jaw dropping. He ( was ) argueably the greatest RHH of all time. 500HRs, 500 2Bs no one in the Hall has that. He went to LA and the Dodgers sniffed the post-season because of his inhuman 1.232OPS. Turns out it was inhuman.

How the mighty have fallen. Maybe the Dodgers can lure him from Japan and be in contention again

killeverything wrote:Seeing Manny hit was jaw dropping. He ( was ) argueably the greatest RHH of all time. 500HRs, 500 2Bs no one in the Hall has that. He went to LA and the Dodgers sniffed the post-season because of his inhuman 1.232OPS. Turns out it was inhuman.

How the mighty have fallen. Maybe the Dodgers can lure him from Japan and be in contention again

Manny's Turning Japanese? He's really turning Japanese?....Too funny, this I have to see. Hated to like him, Manny's a total douche but gave the Dodgers a lift before crashing. Even at Boston I hated him but would always watch his at bats. One of the best clubbers ever. Roids or not.

I did love those bobble heads, they gave them away at a home game then sent the left overs to a local Dodgers farm team....So I bought them for $5 and pushed them for $60 then stopped at $45. Bought a ton and still have a few, think they're down to $20.....Been giving the last few away to any Manny fans I know or meet.

UtahRatt wrote:

johnk5150 wrote:Yes they're called Chardonnay drinking hipster douchebags. Can I assume you live a distance from Chicago? No one here thinks the Cubs are good. And we know we certainly have nothing to brag about.

You're in de-nile!

Cub fans are manically depressed bobble heads who radiate like the ding bats at McDonald's. HI, How's your day!! Can I take your order!! LET'S PLAY TWO!! That painted on smile hides your crying to sleep at night with each and every painful game....Day....Year...Decade..Fuck it, a life time of getting spanked while saying "thank you sir may I have another?"


I'd love to watch a game at Wrigley and enjoy it even more to catch and keep the HR ball. Looks like a fun park full of nasty beer drunkards.

We're manically depressed because the product on the field has sucked our whole lives. I can't see how you can loathe their true fan base.

UtahRatt wrote:Manny's turning Japanese

Taiwan. The EDA Rhinos Of Chinese Baseball League to be exact.



Check him out going yard, the announcer's unbelieveable.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/internat ... in-taiwan/

It's got to be amazing to catch a game there.

killeverything wrote:

UtahRatt wrote:Manny's turning Japanese

Taiwan. The EDA Rhinos Of Chinese Baseball League to be exact.



Check him out going yard, the announcer's unbelieveable.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/internat ... in-taiwan/

It's got to be amazing to catch a game there.

Holy shit that looks just like Johnny Cueto on that sign she's holding. Never knew Manny & he looked so much alike

killeverything wrote:

UtahRatt wrote:Manny's turning Japanese

Taiwan. The EDA Rhinos Of Chinese Baseball League to be exact.


Check him out going yard, the announcer's unbelieveable.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/internat ... in-taiwan/

It's got to be amazing to catch a game there.

That's fucking awesome on another level. God I hate liking that tool. HAACHIIIIIII TAAAHHHHHA! Soy sauce!

johnk5150 wrote:
We're manically depressed because the product on the field has sucked our whole lives. I can't see how you can loathe their true fan base.

Tell me about it, secretly rooted for them in the 80's/90's......I wanted to hurt small animals.

UtahRatt wrote:

johnk5150 wrote:
We're manically depressed because the product on the field has sucked our whole lives. I can't see how you can loathe their true fan base.

Tell me about it, secretly rooted for them in the 80's/90's......I wanted to hurt small animals.

We drink a lot.

Could be worse. The White Sox are just as bad.

johnk5150 wrote:Could be worse. The White Sox are just as bad.

True but the Cubs who's rotation is surprisingly good don't have a pitcher on the level of Chris Sale.

So, one of my best friends is getting married, and wants to take the bachelor party to Wrigley. He's a lifelong Cubs fan due to spending hours on the road as a small child visiting relatives in the Chicago area and listening to Cubs games on the radio. I'm a Braves guy myself and really had no interest in going to a game, but we knew the after party would at least be memorable.

Anyway, I got the full Cubs experience.

We started off the day drinking Old Style's as a cold wind whipped in under the covered portion of the infield behind home plate, making an otherwise pleasant day damn near miserable. Things got off to an expected start as the Reds knocked one into the left field bleachers early to go up 1 - 0. They were sending one of their best young pitchers to the mound that day, sporting something like a 1.01 ERA. Either the wind was bothering his control, or he was just off, because he plunked the 3rd batter up, bringing Soriano to the plate. That was followed by a line drive shot over the left field wall.

The rest of the game is pretty hazy (those Old Style's are pretty damned good) until we get to the 8th, and here comes everybody's favorite Cubs reliever.

Marmol loaded the bases before the guy that relieved him gave up the winning runs.

The full Cubs experience: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on what should have been an easy win.

Still, I did figure out why the fans continue to fill the stadium year in and year out. The party after the game was great (nothing like that after a Braves game). We drank our way around Wrigleyville and had a blast until one of the guys in our party regurgitated the contents of his stomach outside the Houndstooth. (Hey, it's a bar in Chicago named the Houndstooth and decorated in Alabama memorabilia... I had to go in. Plus, they sold 40s.)

So, yeah, that's my Cubs story.

Alabama Slammer wrote: Anyway, I got the full Cubs experience.



The full Cubs experience: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory on what should have been an easy win.

Welcome to the party pal. I have cirrhosis

Could there honestly be a more frustrating professional sports team to support? My heart (and respect) goes out to all those hardcore Cubs fans. THAT is intestinal fortitude.

My family is in town so I took them for the whole Cubs experience yesterday. Meaning we were accosted for money on the red line, then watched the Cubs lose

Anne_Thrax wrote:My family is in town so I took them for the whole Cubs experience yesterday. Meaning we were accosted for money on the red line, then watched the Cubs lose

That's called a Tuesday

1-0 Pirates.

Damn.

Morning Already? wrote:Could there honestly be a more frustrating professional sports team to support? My heart (and respect) goes out to all those hardcore Cubs fans. THAT is intestinal fortitude.

Try being a Browns fan. (Or and Indians fan, or a Cavaliers fan....)

Cubs take the 1st game of the "Crosstown Cup"!

Cubs don't lose!

Cubs win 3rd in a row against the White Sox!!! ........didn't see that coming.

Leppardmania wrote:Cubs win 3rd in a row against the White Sox!!! ........didn't see that coming.

Man. The Sox stink

Cubs win 5th in row today.

23-30 overall........40 more wins to go to avoid 100 losses

Leppardmania wrote:Cubs win 5th in row today.

23-30 overall........40 more wins to go to avoid 100 losses

Their weighted on base average is quite good for a team under .500. This winning streak was long overdue. They aren't nearly as horrible statistically as their record.

johnk5150 wrote:

Leppardmania wrote:Cubs win 5th in row today.

23-30 overall........40 more wins to go to avoid 100 losses

Their weighted on base average is quite good for a team under .500. This winning streak was long overdue. They aren't nearly as horrible statistically as their record.

Carlos Marmol has singlehandedly made their record much worse than it should be.
It would be better for their team to eat his contract and stop letting him ruin games.

June has begun. Google the word swoon.

Another Marmol Instant Classic.
He threw 1 inning, giving up 3 walks and 1 hit which tacked another earned run to his record.
5.62 ERA. Good stuff.